The Vampire Armand Quotes

“If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men who though they had renounced all else for Christ's sake, nevertheless came together in congregations to be with one another, even as they enforced upon themselves the harsh rules of single solitary cells and unbroken silence. They couldn't bear to be alone.

We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creater, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be--Christ, Yahweh, Allah--He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“The human heart is my school.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window
so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because
I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me
away from you.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“I have it in my heart. It’s mine alone, this pain.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Perhaps the horror of my own life was that, no matter what I did or where I went, I always understood.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“If I'm an angel, paint me with black wings.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Master, the paintings, the paintings in the storage rooms!" I cried.
"Forget the paintings. It's too late. Boys, run from here, get out now, save yourselves from the fire."
Knocking the attackers back, he shot up the stairwell and called down to me from the uppermost railing. "Come, Amadeo, fight them off, believe in your strength, child, fight.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“It is the very nature of this world that all things are devoured and time is a mouth as bloody as any other.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“There was never any innocence for us, there was never any springtime. There was never any chance, no matter how beautiful the twilight gardens in which we wandered. Our souls were too out of tune, our desires crossed and our resentments to common and too well watered for the final flowering.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to study, to listen.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“I’m trimmed in memories as if in old furs. I lift my arm and the sleeve of memory covers it.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Si soy un ángel, píntame con alas negras.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“You think I’m a doll, don’t you? You think I’m cute and made of poured wax and you’ll stay as long as I stay.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Please, Master, I can’t endure this,” I said. “Then, how will you endure eternity, my child? Don’t you know that’s what I mean to give you? What power under God is there that can break me?”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“All my life this love made meaningful, sparing nothing, and as I marveled at this, accepting it completely and without urgency or questioning, a miraculous process began. All my life came to me in the form of all those I had ever known.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to study, to listen, even to pray, though to whom I prayed I wasn’t sure, and it was to take every opportunity to be generous to those mortals whom I did not kill.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Slowly, I brushed his hair more tenderly, and I saw to my own mute shock one of my tears fall right onto his face. It was red yet watery and transparent and it appeared to vanish as it moved down the curve of his cheekbone and into the natural hollow below.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“Making him to be my mate, I made a mirror who saw me all the more clearly as a monster.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“My love for Daniel had never been entirely honest, and always viciously possessive, and quite entangled with my own hatred of the world at large, and my confusion in the face of the baffling modern times which had begun to open up to me when I emerged in the late years of the Eighteenth Century from the catacombs beneath Paris.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“It seemed to me in my wild and passionate soul, in my newborn vampiric heart, that the Magi had come only for Christ’s birth but for my rebirth as well.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“I caught him as if he were the love of my young life, and unwound the wool from around the artery where I would feed.

He begged me to stop, to name my price. How still my Master looked, watching only me, as the man begged and I ignored him, merely feeling for this large-pulsing irresistible vein.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“What mattered now was only that I understood what it meant to cherish others and to cherish life itself. I”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“He claimed to have been a prophet, divinely inspired by God, and that these were the Last Days, and this is the oldest most tiresome Christian complaint in the world, believe you me. The Last Days! Christianity is a religion based on the notion that we are living in the Last Days! It’s a religion fueled by the ability of men to forget all the blunders of the past, and get dressed once more for the Last Days.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand

“I glanced back at the dead man on his side, his shoulder sagging. On the windowsill beyond and above him stood a blue glass bottle and in it was an orange flower. Isn’t that the damnedest thing?”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Armand